{"id":1020667,"date":"2026-07-14T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020667"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:46:06","slug":"jio-platforms-replaces-ceo-kiran-thomas-with-pankaj-pawar-ahead-of-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/jio-platforms-replaces-ceo-kiran-thomas-with-pankaj-pawar-ahead-of-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jio Platforms replaces CEO Kiran Thomas with Pankaj Pawar ahead of IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jio Platforms has replaced Kiran Thomas as chief executive officer with Pankaj Pawar ahead of its planned initial public offering, according to the company&#8217;s draft IPO papers. <\/p>\n<p>The draft papers, submitted to capital markets regulator Sebi in June, mentioned that Thomas resigned as CEO on March 23, with Pawar taking charge the following day, March 24. <\/p>\n<p>Pawar, 53, also serves as managing director of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jio Platforms has replaced Kiran Thomas as chief executive officer with Pankaj Pawar ahead of its planned initial public offering, according to the company&#8217;s draft IPO papers. The draft papers, submitted to capital markets regulator Sebi in June, mentioned that Thomas resigned as CEO on March 23, with Pawar taking charge the following day, March 24. Pawar, 53, also serves as managing director of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020687,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020667\/revisions\/1020687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}